FAMILY TARSIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Tarsiidae mean? 

• FAMILY TARSIIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY TARSIIDAE has 1 sense:

1. coextensive with the genus Tarsius: tarsiers

  Familiarity information: FAMILY TARSIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY TARSIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coextensive with the genus Tarsius: tarsiers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Tarsiidae; Tarsiidae

Hypernyms ("family Tarsiidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Tarsiidae"):

genus Tarsius; Tarsius (type and sole genus of the family Tarsiidae)

Holonyms ("family Tarsiidae" is a member of...):

suborder Tarsioidea; Tarsioidea (in some classifications assigned to the suborder Prosimii)

 Context examples 

Any haplorhine primate not belonging to the family Tarsiidae, Hylobatidae, Pongidae, or Hominidae; this does not correspond to any taxon.

(Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)